{"product_id":"ulster-to-america-the-scots-irish-migration-experience-1680-1830-9781621902638","title":"Ulster to America: The Scots-Irish Migration Experience, 1680-1830","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor Warren R. Hofstra has gathered contributions from pioneering scholars who are rewriting the history of the Scots-Irish.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn addition to presenting fresh information based on thorough and detailed research, they offer cutting-edge interpretations that help explain the Scots-Irish experience in the United States. In place of implacable Scots-Irish individualism, the writers stress the urge to build communities among Ulster immigrants. In place of rootlessness and isolation, the authors point to the trans-Atlantic continuity of Scots-Irish settlement and the presence of Germans and Anglo-Americans in so-called Scots-Irish areas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a variety of ways, the book asserts, the Scots-Irish actually modified or abandoned some of their own cultural traits as a result of interacting with people of other backgrounds and in response to many of the main themes defining American history. While the Scots-Irish myth has proved useful over time to various groups with their own agendas- including modern-day conservatives and fundamentalist Christians- this book, by clearing away long-standing but erroneous ideas about the Scots-Irish, represents a major advance in our understanding of these immigrants. It also places Scots-Irish migration within the broader context of the historiographical construct of the Atlantic world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganised in chronological and migratory order, this volume includes contributions on specific U.S. centres for Ulster immigrants: New Castle, Delaware; Donegal Springs, Pennsylvania; Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Opequon, Virginia; the Virginia frontier; the Carolina backcountry; southwestern Pennsylvania, and Kentucky.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUlster to America\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for scholars and students of American history, immigration history, local history, and the colonial era, as well as all those who seek a fuller understanding of the Scots-Irish immigrant story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188887118167,"sku":"9781621902638","price":18.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ulster-to-america-the-scots-irish-migration-experience-1680-1830-9781621902638","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}